Busy Day in Redmond

Microsoft settled two antitrust actions, put a price tag on its remaining legal woes, asked the EU to drop its antitrust case and prepared to release Halo 2. And it's only Monday.

The world's biggest software maker said it would pay $536 million to Novell to end a dispute over Novell's NetWare operating system, while Novell agreed to pull out of the European Union's antitrust case against Microsoft. But Novell said it would still sue Microsoft in federal court over its WordPerfect word-processing program, which competed...